Roof and future plans for the stadium!!
 

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we wont move grounds until we have to

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I am trying to keep optomistic on the new roof situation, but if it is not sorted out by the begining of next season i will not be a happy camper!

We have been promised this roof for 3 years or so.

The current weather conditions are one reason the attendances are as low as they are. People will not stand for another season of the clayton end terrace without a roof, especially when the price goes up on the turnstyles next season.

I'm not having a rant for the sake of it, i'm just concerned about how many new supporters are gonna be put off and not return until the the F.A. cup wagon rolls back into town!

Does anyone know how long the work will take to finish/completion dates?:confused:

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Hear hear, if there isn't a roof next season, I am ditching the flags & the terrace will be a duller place IMO

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The club would be dissapointed if work hasnt started over the summer



sorry just pre empting an official statement :)

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I think now is the time for the club to come clean and make it public what are the start and estimated finish dates with the construction work.

It will put a lot of peolpes minds at rest, and give us all summat to look forward to(perhaps a opening party!).

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hear hear to the party!! :D

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To be fair spud.. there was a supporters club meeting tonight and usually a director or two are present for questions and answers. you could ahve popped along and asked them.....

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If i could have kip, i would have.

It shouldn't be down to the fans to keep asking, the club should make a statement with concrete gauruntees not the 'we will be dissappointed if it dosen't' attitude we have come accustomed to.:)

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True.. but personally I have given up... will believe it when I see it mate...

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again it comes down to communication. The club in the past has been none to forwards with information. This season has been a little better but maybe thats because we've tired of excuses. Our league position this last few weeks has seen us forget the tirades, but now that the league position is all but assured .......

WHERES OUR ROOF?
LOL

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Not having a dig at the club just wondered as im sure we will have a few new fans next season so why not tell them and the fans that are here now whats happening.

who will want to come just to get wet if theres no roof on etc because we need to attract supporters but also keep them coming espicially with us NEARLY getting promotion :D

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will try and get the plans for next season online together with a description of what will be going on, before the end of this week...

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Thanks Rob, that will make fans a little bit easier, in their minds. I think people were begining to have doubts, especially with the pronounced silence from the Club. We have been waiting since January for the plans, when you said that you would publish them within the next few days. I hope this time you stick to your word.

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personally i cant see the roof happening for a while, as it is not in the guidelines to make the stadium acceptable for league football, im sure due to the attendances the club will do the minimum required ie more turnstiles, first aid room etc until we are getting 2000+ every game.

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Chicken and egg though mate isn't it. I read Eric moaning in the local rags a few months ago asking if the people of Accrington 'really want a league team' due to poor attendances. That bloody roof must be the biggest Google Page Ranking disaster in history. Anyone would think they are trying to organsise a 3 tier cantilever stand, its dragged on for about 2 years now. More than working as a shelter im eager to get it on because of the improvement it will make to the atmosphere. It will stop all the songs evaporating into the cold night sky and instead create a clayton ednd cauldron of noise. Ragggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Anyway, positive, positive, CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are football league, say we are football league.

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I cant understand what EW is going on about 2000 fans and all that, Down the road Bury get smaller attendances and Rochdale dont get to many either !!! but they cut their cloth accordingly.The roof needs to be put up to keep existing fans, the last thing we need is fans going elseware, the club need to remember the fans pay the money they are at least entitled to decent toilets and a roof to keep them dry, this is basic stuff and if the club cant get this right what chance do we stand.

Raising standards on and off the pitch go hand in hand.

Give us a green to the football league. :engsmil:

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Over half the ground is covered. Seating and standing. Lets not get carried away. we all want a roof for the clayton end but to suggest people will support another club just because there isn't covering over a certain part is a bit OTT

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I think one or two people are trying to let us in slowly to the reality that we may not get a roof this year. I heard on the radio this morning that ASFC are before HBC tonight with a view to planning permission. It was said by our CE - RH, that even if we dont win promotion this year they will probably go ahead with their plans for a first aid room, toilets, two extra turnstiles and a police control room, as we will need them sooner or later anyway.

I sincerely hope that the roof is incorporated into those plans and their omission from the statement was purely oversight.

The issue of a roof has gone on for FAR TOO LONG. Kipax mentioned that more than half the ground is covered, maybe, I do not wish to sit, most people do not wish to sit. Also the Whinney Hill is too small, too low, and too many olde worlde people who wanna get as far away from shoute swearee people like me, or the drummer.

We wanna be dry, we wanna be loud. We will be both when the roof is in place. Two seasons ago, after promotion to the conference yielded no roof, I got into the habit of not going to a match if the weather was even slightly off. It is an easy habit to lose (going to every match) and we dont have enough fans to start losing some again. We need to keep the ones we have before we start worrying about attracting new fans. Many people have commented previously about whether they can believe what the club tell them as regards future developments - can you imagine the outcry if it is not done in the current round of development?



ps Ignore Kipax if he sides with not getting a roof - he will be wetter with raindrops dripping on his touchline hugging bonce if the roof hangs over far enough ;)

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yeagh yeagh ffs..... i said its a bit much to suggest people will support another team if roof isnt done..

I ahve been very outspoken for the last couple of years on these forums about getting a roof...

read my post again.. what part of WE ALL WANT A ROOF FOR THE CLAYTON END is me going against it?

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I don't care if we don't get one.My seat is in the dry anyway.

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Who hasn't got the guts to say anything when taking karma points? It doesn't worry me anyway. You can take them all if you want.

YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK.

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Haven't forgotten, have you, Rob? :)

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The week is up Rob. The silence is deafening. Once more dissapointing, no result,cannot blame the fans for feeling let down AGAIN.

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Come on lads, let's be reasonable it's only 4 o'clock

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I AM being reasonable. It was just a friendly reminder!

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9.35 and still not a peep from Rob. Perhaps he meant the end of next week!

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He said he will "try" he didnt say he will do... Also his week doesnt end 5pm friday... he works a lot more than 8hrs a day and more than 5 days a week.. he also regularly reads the forums so will have hardly forgotton.

All I am saying is give him a break .. He isnt winding you up on purpose :)

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OK, Mr K, point taken.

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Yeah, ok point taken up here. I’m sure Rob want’s to get this information over to us as soon as it’s practical. I’m also sure he will understand how keen we are to find out how things are going to look next season. My god what time to look forward too………better than Christmas. :)

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haven't forgotten, got a few scans of things to get in and will get it all online. also we're looking to have a forum in the next week or so with a q&a session about ground developments and also the opportunity to add suggestions for how things will run next season if things go to plan...

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Cheers, Rob! :)

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This is music to my ears...

Let us all go to the forum and voice our views/oppinions for the future of the club and the FANS.:)

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just read in the Telegraph today that THE PLANS HAVE BEEN APPROVED despite objections from Livingstone Road. THE PLANS INCLUDE £100K TO COVER THE CLAYTON END.





















took me 3 minutes to log on and type this message

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Thank God For That. i love the atmosphere when accrington sing! soon as we get a roof on top me and my fellow older friends will be able to hear you better when we sit in the stands. it will make the ground look smarter and will make the atmosphere electric.

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Seriously? was it in the telegraph....

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does this have any relevance...

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/la.../STANLEY1.html

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Exactly well said:D ..... i'll gladly do a house swop lol:rolleyes:

I think as one neighbour said are frightened of their loss of view of the ground with the proposal of the tower & would have to pay per view like rest of us lol:p

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Pmsl Kisser, sounds very much its a case of wanting to have the cake & eat it job around there:rolleyes: :D

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As seen on NEIGHBOURS FROM HELL!!! :D:D:D

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Extract from the March edition of 'Global Sports And Property Gazette':-

"It's not difficult to understand the enormous increase in property values in the Livingstone Road area of Accrington. As the Accrington Stanley Football Club has risen in fame over the last seven years, aided by its history and provenance which stir deeply passionate feelings amongst East Lancashire ex-pats worldwide, so local property values have soared to levels which were hitherto unimaginable.

Local estate agents have, at last, acknowledged that there is an insatiable demand from abroad for holiday homes in the immediate area . One agent, who wished to remain anonymous, told our reporter that there was now an unprecedented number of planning applications in the pipeline for adding upper storeys to existing bungalows in Livingstone Road."

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Come on, Rob, you must have got these elusive plans together by now!

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Someone said a week's a long time in politics -- it's a sight longer in football!

Let's have the SP!

Ta

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I'm holding my breath :eek: so come on Rob

Give us Green to the FOOTBALL LEAGUE:engsmil:

Just nip to C.I.L ;) But SR i'm in Mitcham

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Surely this must have been sorted now to put on the website?

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Still Waiting... I need to know if we will spend another winter in the rain ??

Give us a green JB to the Premier league :engsmil:

Just nip for 2 pallets of cheese :D

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a slight ditto on whhat iv'v posted earlier...

Expected start and finish dates?

Schedual?????????

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hahaha what a gullible lot.. you will learn :)

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Not too interested in the figures(cost) just a concrete date...

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I sense restlessness amongst the natives. Maybe its time for the campaign to begin in earnest again



where's that roof?
I'd shout it from the rooftop, but we aint got one

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Don't worry about the Clayton End roof.

If Stanley are returned to the Football League you will be absolutely astonished by the changes which will take place.

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I have been told that work is due to start on Monday. A fence from the second gate to the car park at the Coppice End to the turnstiles with a bar etc. for the away fans, the roof, toilets and bar at the Clayton End. Next season you will not be allowed to walk to the Clubhouse from the Clayton End. and no access to the seats from the Clayton End. Just what I have heard.

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I have been told that work has started on the first aid room, which I am led to understand is the old storage metal shed near to the dressing rooms. Why is the Club so secreative over the improvments and timetable.
Anyway where is the ROOF

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Fence, First Aid room and police control room all have to be done in time for next season. None have anything to do with the clayton end roof. there all bits to bring us up to scratch to join the league..

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the fence will start on Monday and the first aid room has started.

Loweiy

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and the roof.............?

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keep dreaming son...... keep dreaming :)

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to dream the impossible dream is the song

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The commentator at York last week said we where a roofless club………….14 points and rising, come on and join us folks the more we can get in the ground the warmer it will be then we won’t need a roof…….unless it rains, hails or snows of course. :)

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stand by for a wet match Doug, the forecast is for rain, rain and more rain

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No worries, I'v got a hat......:)

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If they build a roof this year! me and macca are gonna show our bare arses in burtons window ....that right macca? :)

Whos with us? ..... hehe

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I'll hold your Camera for you........:) :)

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If the roof happens...count me in:eek:

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spud, has that not happened to you before??? what about the woolies episode??? he he he i know all your secrets.
roof, bar, that's what we want!!!

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You know me to well me ol' china!!!!:)

I stand by what i say, and if it happens, it happens!

p.s. revenge is sweet.:cool:

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my arse is well primed. I just worry whether the window is big enough

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I dont think we will be finding out....unfortunatly..

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away matches only for me next season if there is no roof. I am putting up with it no longer. Cutting my nose off maybe but I'm voting with my feet

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I’m not sure I want a roof. I quite enjoyed the sun shine today……..:)

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i think we could do a sponsored arse showing in aid of a roof!!!!

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I'm with you lot here the clubs silence on the roof is DEAFENING :confused: Why can we not have an official statement from the club.

Come on EW Give us some news or is it another winter in the rain:mad:

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Did you notice that 30 odd Grays fans (with a roof) made more noise than an entire Stanley Terrace without a roof. Think about what the atmosphere will be like if we have a roof over the terrace.

:engsmil:

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Did no one notice the white line that has been painted on the ground behind the Clayton End.
COULD THIS be the start of something big.

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Like a new fence maybe ? Its convinced ossyclogger that its the start of the new roof :)

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Our line of de-fence maybe :D

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sorry for the delay, some work has started around the ground and more starting this morning. summary of changes online later today followed by a short presentation/forum/discussion in the stanley sports bar on tuesday evening at 7.30pm. all welcome, full details (including good beer prices) on the official site...

rob

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Thanks for that Rob but...........

I understand the cost of the improvements and that the plans are in place however i thought that Ilyas Khan had given the Stanley the money for the roof to enable the club to pay for the other essentials

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Exactly! If this is the case, why cannot the roof be constructed at the same time as the other work? It's not as if it's Wembley we're after!

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[quote=Redash]Did you notice that 30 odd Grays fans (with a roof) made more noise than an entire Stanley Terrace without a roof. Think about what the atmosphere will be like if we have a roof over the terrace.

Yes, but 100% of the Gray's fans were noisy - how many of the Stanley fans on the terrace were? I would think about 10% - the Ultras deserve better back-up.